Key keywords: Ron DeSantis, Florida redistricting, Republican internal warning, congressional gerrymandering, 2024 US elections, voting rights, Florida Fair Districts amendment, GOP House majority A growing chorus of congressional and state-level Republicans are publicly and privately warning Florida Governor Ron DeSantis that his ongoing push to redraw the state’s congressional district maps is “fraught with peril,” with risks ranging from lost House seats in 2024 to costly, years-long legal battles that could drain party resources and alienate independent voters. The push comes after the Florida Supreme Court ruled in September 2023 that DeSantis’s 2022 redistricting plan violated the state’s Fair Districts amendment, which prohibits maps that intentionally dilute the voting power of racial minority groups. The 2022 map had eliminated two majority-Black congressional districts, cutting the state’s number of Black-represented seats from four to two and delivering 20 of Florida’s 28 House seats to Republicans in that year’s midterm elections. DeSantis, who ended his 2024 Republican presidential primary bid in January, has framed the new redistricting push as an effort to “correct procedural flaws” in the court-rejected map and ensure Florida’s district boundaries align with federal voting laws. But multiple GOP officials are pushing back, arguing that the move is unnecessarily risky for the party’s broader electoral goals. First, moderate and swing-district Republicans warn that the public perception of overt gerrymandering will mobilize Democratic and independent voters across the country, turning Florida’s redistricting fight into a national campaign issue for Democrats who have long framed GOP redistricting efforts as a threat to voting rights. National Republican Congressional Committee officials have privately told DeSantis’s team that the issue could cost the party up to four swing House seats in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Arizona, where Democrats are already running campaigns focused on protecting access to the ballot. Second, the push faces near-certain legal challenges that could take years to resolve, meaning the new maps might not even be in place for the 2024 or 2026 elections, wasting millions in state and party funds on legal fees. Third, several incumbent Florida Republican House members have expressed frustration that the proposed new maps would split their current districts, forcing them to run against fellow GOP incumbents in costly primaries or run in newly drawn districts with far less name recognition. Even staunch DeSantis allies in the state legislature have raised concerns, noting that the current map already gives Republicans a 20-8 advantage in the state’s House delegation, and that seeking an even larger majority could backfire with voters who see the move as an overreach of executive power.